{"product_id":"these-dark-skies-arianne-zwartjes-9781609388416","title":"These Dark Skies: Reckoning with Identity, Violence, and Power from Abroad","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThese Dark Skies, \u003c\/i\u003eArianne Zwartjes interweaves the experience of living in the southern Netherlands--with her wife, who is Russian--and the unfolding of both the refugee crisis across Europe and the uptick in terrorist acts in France, Greece, Austria, Germany, and the Balkans. She probes her own subjectivity, as a white American, as a queer woman in a transcultural marriage, as a writer, and as a witness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The essays investigate and meditate on a broad array of related topics, including drone strikes, tear gas, and military intervention; the sugar trade, the Dutch blackface celebration of Zwarte Piet, and constructions of whiteness in Europe and the U.S.; and visual arts of Russian avant-garde painters, an Iraqi choreographer living in Belgium, and German choreographer Pina Bausch. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is a lyrical, timely book deeply salient to the political moment we continue to find ourselves in: a moment of incredible anti-refugee and anti-immigrant sentiment, a moment of xenophobic and misogynistic violence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arianne Zwartjes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609388410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609388416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.80w x 0.90d","brand":"Arianne Zwartjes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981893599487,"sku":"9781609388416","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1dea4538-faa3-48f5-aaf0-f4d860a000ef.jpg?v=1683258116","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/these-dark-skies-arianne-zwartjes-9781609388416","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}